TY  - GEN
T1  - Finance and fictionality in the early eighteenth century : accounting for Defoe
A1  - Sherman, Sandra
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm42329500
AB  - In the early eighteenth century, the increasing dependence of society on financial credit provoked widespread anxiety. The texts of credit - stock certificates, IOUs, bills of exchange - were denominated as potential 'fictions', while the potential fictionality of other texts was measured in terms of the 'credit' they deserved. Sandra Sherman argues that in this environment finance is like fiction, employing the same tropes. She goes on to show how the work of Daniel Defoe epitomised the market's capacity to unsettle discourse, demanding and evading 'honesty' at the same time. Defoe's œuvre, straddling both finance and literature, theorizes the disturbance of market discourse, elaborating strategies by which an author can remain in the market, perpetrating fiction while avoiding responsibility for doing so.
OP  - 222
CN  - PR3408.E25 S54 1996eb
SN  - 058503012X
SN  - 9780585030128
SN  - 0521481546
KW  - Defoe, Daniel, : 1661?-1731 : Knowledge : Economics.
KW  - Defoe, Daniel, : 1661.-1731.
KW  - Defoe, Daniel, : 1661?-1731
KW  - Economics : England : History : 18th century.
KW  - Finance : England : History : 18th century.
KW  - Economics in literature.
KW  - Finance in literature.
KW  - Fiction : Technique.
KW  - Économie politique : Angleterre : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Finances : Angleterre : Histoire : 18e siècle.
KW  - Économie politique dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economics in literature
KW  - Fiction : Technique
KW  - Finance
KW  - Finance in literature
KW  - England
KW  - 1700-1799
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -